#booksofenoch — Public Fediverse posts

I just conducted an interesting writing experiment based on OULIPO. I took one of my poems and replaced all of the nouns with nouns pulled at random from The Books of Enoch (the closest book handy). Then I tinkered with it slightly, and what emerged is something far more interesting than my original poem. Give it a try! In the original exercise, “the writer takes a poem already in existence and substitutes each of the poem’s substantive nouns with the noun appearing seven nouns away in the dictionary. Care is taken to ensure that the substitution is not just a compound derivative of the original, or shares a similar root, but a wholly different word. Results can vary widely depending on the version of the dictionary one uses.” https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-oulipo #OULIPO #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #BooksOfEnoch #CutUp

#WritingWonders 7.16 — How comfortable are you with writing kissing and/or intimacy scenes?

Perfectly comfortable. I’ve written all sorts of explicit erotica before. That being said, even though my current manuscript features a fertility god with an enormous schlong, even though there are mentions of angels fornicating with cattle (inspired by the Apocrypha), there are no actual sex/intimacy scenes. #AmWriting #Mythology #SumerianMythology #BooksOfEnoch #Apocrypha #slipstream

I worked on my novel daily for a very long time, and faltered upon returning from vacation in April. Today I got so more more work done on it. I think I needed that break to think about where I’m going next with the finale. Now I have a better idea how to get there while tying in key elements from the Books of Enoch. #AmWriting #Slipstream #Apocrypha #BooksOfEnoch #Enki #Mythology